Re: Offsetting a turn horizontally

[Joseph Wakeling]

Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> You can achieve this by using parallel music (i.e. music expressions inside 
> << ... >>):
> 
> \relative c' {
> c,4.(\p e8 g c d \setTextCresc e)\< 
> << {f2(\!} {s4 s4\turn} >> g4 f) 
> }
> 
> The two expressions in {..} inside the <<..>> will be laid out in parallel. 
> The second one contains only quarter skips, where you can assign the turn to 
> the second skip. Thus the turn will always appear on the second beat 
> correctly.

Ahhh.  Neat trick, thank you very much for the suggestion. :-)

It doesn't work absolutely perfectly because the skips do not contribute
to the musical spacing---you can see the difference if instead of s4 you
write e.g. d4.  Is there an option to make skips count towards the layout?